Territory



L. A. HAIGHT.

MEAL SA Patented Sept. 24, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEVI A. HAIGHT, OF TYNDALL, DAKOTA TERRITORY.

FLOUR OR MEAL SAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 411,435, dated September 24, 1889.

Application filed March 2, 1889. Serial No. 301,807. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, LEVI A. HAIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tyndall, in the county of Bon I-Iomme and Territory of Dakota, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Flour and Meal Safes, of

which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts for the purpose of agitating, discharging, and sifting, successively, the contents of the safe, as hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1 is a front View of the safe, together with its appurtenances. Fig. 2 represents a holder with parts broken away. Fig. 3 shows the lower portion of the safe, which is formed into a cylindrical tube. Fig. 4 shows the device for operating. Fig. 5 represents an agitator, which is for the purpose of loosening the flour or meal within the safe to cause an Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

A denotes the safe proper, which ma be made cylindrical, square, or in any desired form, but should be contracted toward its lower end, so as to terminate in a cylindrical tube B in order to conduct the flour or meal into the sifting-pan, the position of which is shown in Fig. 1.

(1 represents a closet, the front of which is provided with a hinged door. The top of the closet is used as a support for the safe. The safe is secured to the closet in a vertical position, for which purpose a circular aperture is made in the central portion of the top of the closet of a sufficient size to admit the tube B, which should extend its full length into and through the aperture. The safe is fastened in this position in any suitable manner. The closet also forms an inclosure for the sifting-pan D, as seen in Fig. 1. The sifting-pan is placed directly under and a suitable distance from the bottom of the tube B, for purposes which will be made apparent from further description, and is secured thereat by means of two metallic strips h h, one end of each being fastened to the inner portion of the top of the closet, the lower ends forming shoulders or hooks from which it depends by the rim.

E represents the receptacle for the sifted pan.

flour or meal, which is placed immediately under the sifting-pan upon the bottom of the closet.

The tube B, through which the contents of the safe pass in operation, is provided with a substantial bottom, forming a cone a, which also constitutes the bottom of the safe. The tube B is further provided with suitable dis charge-openings O O, as seen in Fig. 3, extending upward from the base of the cone a or bottom of the safe, so as to allow an outward flow of the flour or meal into the sifting- To prevent packing or choking I 0011- struct an agitator consisting of shaft H and arms J J, as seen in Fig. 5, and also seen in Fig. 2. The shaft H is placed in a vertical position extending through the center of the cone, the agitating-arms J J resting upon the top of the cone and extending outward and downward, so as to revolve freely around it.

K denotes a collar having openings 0 O of the same size and distance apart as the openings in the tube or cylinder B. The collar must be made to fit easily over the cylinder, so as to allow an easy movement thereupon. The collar K, at its lower edge and rigidly attached thereto, is provided with a suitable number of arms 8 s, which extend downward and outward, and are designed for the purpose of agitating the flour or meal after it has passed into the sifting-pan I), the screen-botto1n of which is in close relation to the arms 3 s. The collar K is further provided with a handle L for the purpose of transmitting movement to it and the connections thereof. The agitator, consisting of shaft H and arms J J, being in the position as above described and seen in Fig. 2, the collar K is slipped over the cylindrical tube B and connection is secured between the collar and agitator by a pin 1, which runs through the lower portion of the collar K and agitatorshaft I-l, said collar and shaft extending a little below the bottom of the safeor tube for the above purpose.

The operation of withdrawing and sitting is therefore apparent. The operator grasps the handle L, and byavibrating rotary move ment the contents of the safe are withdrawn and sifted in any desirable quantity.

It maybe readily seen that when the openings in the collar and tube correspond or register with each other the flour or meal falls into the sifting-pan, the agitator Within the safe loosening it for that purpose, and the arms that are attached to the collar Working upon the screen cause the fine flour or meal" to pass through as rapidly as it is Withdrawn from the safe, the outflow and sifting being regulated by the rapidity and extent of the movement, Whereas an extended slow move--; ment increases the outflow and diminishes its passage through the screen, an extended rapid movement diminishes the outflow and increases its passage through the screen. The collar K and arms 8 3 may be operated to the F extent that the openings do not in any part correspond ,and no outflow is obtainedproj vided that the proper movement is made.

lhe safe proper is provided with a remoy, able.,eorer, and also a ring, w ich is ecur by which it may be suspended from the Wall, 1 the closet bearing against the all .to afford asteadyand firm support. In lieu of thus suspending he app a u from the we i may be placed on a table, shelf, or any desired elevation. For the purpose of conveniently filling, it may be set upon the floor in an upright position.

I do not claim the safe proper or its supports; but,

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim In a flourand meal safe, the combination of bin A, tube B, having cone a and outlets -0 O, collar K, having corresponding outlets C O, stirrers J J on lower ends, and handle L, agitator H J J, and means for attaching to collar 3K, sieve'D, and pan E, whereby the contents of the bin are agitated, discharged,

and sifted, successively, substantially asdescribed.

Intestimonywhereof I my signature in presence of two witnesses. to therear portion of the topedge of the safe LEVI A. HAIGlIT. WVitn esses:

D. P. BRADFORD,

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